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[[strikethrough]] Straits of Belle Isle - On Board Barque "George Henry" [[/strikethrough]]
St. Johns N.F. Sept 22d 1862 [[strikethrough]] S. O. Budington Master. [[/strikethrough]]
Henry Grinnell & Cyrus W Field, Esq. New York
I am bound for the States to renew Voyage - have not prosecuted my Mission to the extent proposed on account loss of craft - but thank God, He hath empowered me to do something - have determined the fate of probably two boats' events of Sir John Franklin's - solved the mystery of near three hundred years relative to Sir Martin Frobisher's Expeditions ^[[ [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ]] under the auspices of Queen Elizabeth - have learned the fate of the five men captured from Frobisher by the Esquimeaux - identified the exact places of his landings - especially Countess of Warwick's Sound where [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethough]] ^[[Frobisher]] attempted to plant a Colony ^[[of one hundred men]] [[strikethrough]] and have [[/strikethough]] recovered therefrom ^[[and [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] have them aboard]] a large number of relics of said Expeditions & have explored over one thousand miles of Coast including the so called Frobisher Strait which I have discovered to be a Bay Terminating in Lat 63[[degree symbol]] - 48[[feet symbol]] N and Long 70[[degree symbol]] W. - have also discovered a Great Glacier and a Mountain of Fossils between Hudson's Strait and Bay of Frobisher.
The "George Henry" was about to depart for the States Oct. 18th 1861 but [[strikethrough]]the Pack-Ice [[/strikethrough]] ^[[thick-ribbed Ice hath kept him]] entombed till August 9th 1862. The Ship's Co, subsisted mostly through the Winter by the generous hospitality of the Esquimeaux. I have ^[[with me]] a family of this people [[strikethrough]] abord [[/strikethrough]] ^[[aboard]] - man, wife and child.
The records of my work North exceede ^[[3]] [[strikethrough]] two [[/strikethough]] thousand [[strikethrough]] ^[[strikethough]] ^[[and seven hundred]] [[/strikethrough]] pages.
Detail of the Expedition will be }
presented [[strikethrough]] [[^[[?]] ]] [[/strikethrough]] on my arrival. }
Yours ever [[underlined]] C. F. Hall [[/underlined]] of the Franklin Research Expedition".

Transcription Notes:
The Esquimeaux accompanying Hall (page 565 of Hall's book: "My Innuit companions, Ebierbing and Tookoolito, with their infant...." "Innuit" in eskimo language means "The People."